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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1888)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. M, I CAMPBELL, . . PraprleMr, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Jacob IIiooins, a well known farmer, hung himslf to a trco in the woods, a short distance from his residence, near Hixnon Station, Tenn lie had recently loHt his wife. lie leaves five small children, who have no relative! to care for them. Tim extraction ol camphor from the tree toUlly destroys iU growth, and it wu owing to this fact that the custom once prevailed in Japan that when a person removes tho camphor another tree was immediately planted in the ktead of that one from which the gum had been remoed. A Pitthiiuho mechanical engineer lias invented a novel movable dam, by tho use of which he claims a boating stage of water may be obtained in shal low rivcM at all seasons of the year. The invontion has been examined by old river men and pronounced practi cable. The invontor is 82 years old. Exi kkimentm have proved Unit the tonsilo strength of a wet rupo is only one-third that of the same rope when dry, and a rope saturated with grease or soup is weaker still, as the lubricant permits tho fibers to slip with greater facility. Hemp ropo contracts strong ly on being wet, and a dry rone twenty live feet long will shorten to twenty four on being wet. It is propoed to preserve fish alivo by placing them in vessels tilled with water and hermetically oaled. It is Huid that full so conlinud have been found alive after thrco weeks, without either air or water having been changed, while- fish in an open jar died in forty-eight hours. If tho air in the ve&skl is compressed tho life of tho fish is still further prolonged. 4 fftlfM BlUUli: ll'lfll luu mi'"M l'.ta. ul...l..d ...... . Mm nil il t lull which the annual rings beur to tho ago of trees it has been concluded that tiny aro only an approxinia lively und not certainly correct index of age. Any agency ope rating to pro duce alternate periods of rest and ac tivity in the growth of the trees serves to determine their formation. in cold climates the number of rings more nearly serves to indicate the ago of tho trees titan in Warm climates. A kkw weeks ago a citizen of Thorp, Wis., going through the woods near there, found two deer with their horns locked together. Ono was dead und frozen still', and tho other had dragged the dead body over forty rxls and torn up the ground and brush in its frantic effort to gut free. It was still alivo, but very weak, and tho hard-hearted citison killed the poor animal, and then had to breuk the horns in order to get thorn apart Pa fun bottles aro now in extensive use for containing such substances as ink, blueing, shoo dressing, gluo, etc, They aro made by rolling glued sheets of paper into long cylinders, which are then cut into sui'ablo lengths. Tops and Wtoins aro lilted in, the in side coated with a water-proof com Mtund, and all this is done by machin ery almost us quickly us one can count. Homk phenomenal fortunes have been made of late years in the Penn sylvania oil fields. That of William Phillips, of Newcastle, for instance, which amounts to $1,000,000, has all boon made since 187i(. Vandegrift, of rittsburg, has taken $5,000,000 out of the oil fields since 18S0, and a dozen men could be mentioned who have made 11,000,000 or more in the same time. Ok six hundred tornadoes, of which record has boon made in the United States, not more than seventy -five wore east of the Allegheny Mountains. The warm air tempestuously driven from the Uulf of Mexico up the Mis sissippi Valley is caught up by tho polar wind and driven in gyratory tor- muloet aorooa the prairie. Tho Appa lachian range serves on the Atlantic aloie an a barrier against storms of that sort. A OKEiT tunnel has been con ntructed through tho Cascade Moun taint for the Northern Pacific Railroad, at a cost of about $-2,000,000. One of the interesting features of its construc tion waa that electrio lights were used to illuminate it while work waa going on and that the power waa supplied by a mountain stream falling directly over the mouth of the tunnel. There h abundance of such power going to waate all over the country, and more attention should be given to its utili- TELEGRAPHIC. Ai Epitome of the frkipa Eventi Not ittractio? Pahlir Iiierafl The Indianapolis Veneer Company's' works burned. Loss, $100,000; insur ance i.13.000. John Muchth.br, a confectioner,! ' killed his wife and himself at Detroit. Domestic troubles was tho cause, I'rof. B. O. Hoots died at Tamaroa, 111., in his seventy-eighth year. He had l)een for years President of the Board of Education of th.it State. Charles Cross, Jhe jockey, who wan thrown from his horse at the Jerome park race, New York, died from his injuries at Manhattan's hospital. The hotel at Manitou Park, Colo., burned, with all the contents, caused by a log rolling from the fire place, and setting fire to the house. Loss, $50,000. Tho Atlas paper mill, controlled by Kimberly, Clark & Company, was to tally destroyed by iire at Appleton, Wis. Loss, $150,000; insurance, about t50,0W. Destructive forest fires are raging on the south shore of Conception bay, N. S. At Little Kaynorth twenty-six families were burned out. One woman and two children were burned to death. Commandant Hereot, proprietor of the Louvre, and a warm advocate of the Boiilungcr cause, during a fit of temporary mental aberration, shot his young wifo und then shot himself, at runs, r ranee. A disastrous, fire visited Trinidad, Col. After a hard fiirht the lire de partment succeeded in gutting control of it, but not until the Coinmerciu, hotel, with seven or eight business houses, had been consumed. V m. George, a hotel man, died ot Spring View, Neb., of the glanders He contracted the disease while treat ing u trotting horse which ho owned tleorge suffered great ugony for two weeks uoloro his death Nineteen persons were poisoned at K.isota, Mum., fiom eHting cheese which was manufactured in Wiscon sin. Many of the victims becamo in sensible, after suffering spasms, but with good treatment will recover. A tenement house wag burned at Lowell, Mass. Eugenia Vallerand aged 18, Peter Vallerand, itged 8, and Delia Vullerand, aged ft, perished Another of tho Yullerand family mid another occupant named Bjisveit, were fatally hurt. A bottle was picked up on the shore near lax-know, (int., containing a note slating that the schooner TiU'cn, of Hay City, was going down with all on hoard. 1 here was no date on t he note Tho vessel has not beeu hcurd from for some days. Tho remains of August Johnson a id his M-year-old son have been f mud on tho praiiio, near .Syracuse Ks., und suspicion points to Oscar brother of August, a the murderer, The party were traveling and selling horses. Oscar lias disappeared. Daviil K. Calbert, of Chicago, acci dentally shot and killed his 18-year old bride, at their home. He hud dressed himself, und whs picking up lus wutcli and revolver from the bed when tho weapon was discharged. The ball struck the lady in tho .breast, and killed her instantly. They were ma rod only two woeks. An atrocious outrage is reported from Fair tfhunce, Penn. Samaul Humbert, an old resident of Fair Chance, was assaulted by masked men at his residence, who tortured him for two Hairs to make him disclose the place of his supposed wealth. His feet were toasted in front of a lire, in addition to other indignities. A cash boy named Andiew Howard uged 11, has confessed that ho startc the million dollar liio which destroyed the dry goods store of Iiarnes, Hene gerer A Co., at Ruflalo, N. Y. He says he started the fire Iktiuipo ho was mad at Starring, a lloor walker, who would not excuse him to go to funeral at which ho was to bo a pall nearer. a Mrs. Sarah Jano Whitcling volun turily confessed that she had Kioned tier two children at Philadelphia Penn., and hud furnished her husband with iHiison with which, she declares, ho took his own life, on account of despondency caused by poverty. Mrs, Whiteling poisoned her 9-year-olJ daughter Bertha, and a boy, due two years old. Fillippo Guastoni, shot Mrs. liouisa Marri, and then blew out bis own 1 w Drams, iie was a constant visitor in tho Marri household aud had for some time made no secret of his love for the woman. He had been warned by the woman's husband not to interfere with the domestic relations of the Mairi family. Notwithstanding the warn ing, ho forced himself into Mrs. Marri's bedroom, where tho tragedy was committed. A thrilling accident occurred at the Biunduge Whirlpool pork elevator at Lock port, X. Y. Four South Ameri cans, accompanied by an interpreter, aiepped into the car lo descend to the rapids, a descent of 300 feet, at an an glo of forty-five degrees, when the car suddenly started, and rushed to the bottom of the incline, where it was dashed rhto splinters, and iU occu pants thrown with jrreat force upon mo piHuunu. uciore uiey coiuu es cape the other csr reached the top -.1 ..f 11 f . i wun sucn loreo that it waa detached. and came down iioii the shocked and bewildered victims of the first car with a tremendous crash. Mr. Santa had a lee broken and was terribly shaken up and bruised, and her daugh ter waa badly hurt, " COAST CULUNGis. Devoid Principally to WaihingtoD Territory and California, The proj'ct for building a large hotel in Ellensburg, W, T., is one that is much talked of lately. Home fine nuirgets were brought in' J in i i urm.i i " "'iL'S!. T from (he placers of the Hvvauk. The Olympia (W T.) board of trade is preparing a circular to advertise the cify. It is to be done by private en terprise. . A brakeman named A. A. Martin was crushed to death by the Santa Fe train near Santa Ana, Cal. He re sided in Los Angeles, aud leaves a wife. What was left of the steamer Julia which was blown uo mar Valhjo. Cal., feveral months since, was sold by United States Marshal Franks, as trustee, for $015. Richard Van Staden was killed at Mountain View, Cal., by jumping, it is supposed, from tho Monterey ex press train, and hi body was horiibly manghd. A man with a bullet hole near his heart was found in Columbia square, San Francisco. It is thought the man was murdered, bm it is strange no one heard the shots in the neighbor hood. John Walton, a waiter in a restau rant at Los Angeles, Cal., was acci dentally shot by the proprietor, James Wilson, while the hitter was cleaning a revolver. The ball passed through Walton's abdomen. The wound is probably fatal. Five young men of Sin Francisco, whoso ages range from 18 to 22, hired a yawl to take a row on tho bay. When near Government island the boat capsized and one man,' George Flitnnery, was drowned. Tho body has not been recovert d. Deputy Sheriff Alverd, of Cocbiz county, Ariz., had a fight with three Sonora train robbers in the Whetstone mountains, sixty miles north of this place. The officers succeeded in kill ing two and mortally wounding the other ono. Joe Wallace, a young man, met with a fatal accident on freight train No. 13, between Hot Springs and Eagle Gorge, W. T. Ho fell betweeu tho moving cars and was horribly mutilated. Ho was brought to the Fanny Paddock hospital, where he died. At the Coyote ranch near Spring ville, Ariz., a shooting affair occurred between William Magee and Henry Jenkins. Tho hitler w.w fatally woundi d, a Robert Thomas, a looker on, was shot in tho leg, shattering the bone and amputation was necessary. Jenkins lived twenty-four hours. He leaves a wifo and threo children. Muvce was arrested', examined bikI discharged on iv verdict of justifiable homicide. Bertha Schaefehl, a girl 10 years of age, residing with her widowed mother in San Francisco, was sitting on a stairway on tho street, when tho boom of a blast in the vicinity was heard, and a jagged bit of rock came whiz zing through the air, sinking the child on the head. Tho unconscious child was conveyed to her home, and medical attendance was nimmoned. Her skull was found to be fractured, and tho physicians state there is ao hope for her recovery. Dr. E. C. Thatcher, a prominent physician of San Diego, dal., com mitted suicide at Ramon by piercing his jugular vein with a lancet und bleeuing to death. He was commis sioned Burgeon in the navy by Presi dent Johnson in 1S(5, mid served till 1873. lie was a native of Pennsyl vania. Litoly he was addicted to the uso of morphine. James Ahern, a fewer contractor, paraded in tho democratic demonstru tion at San Francisco, and returned home at a late hour. He became ill at about 3 o'clock in the iii'irniiu: mid starting for if not her roi m mistook an open window for a .door and walked through it. A moment later a police man found him lviir; on the sidewalk with his skull fractured ami covered with blood. Ho died an hour later. He leaves a widow and live daughters. Harvey Weiss, one of the best known salesmen traveling out of Chi cago, was found dead in Golden Gate Park, in Sun i rancisco, with a bullet hole throiiKh his head and a revolver by his side with two chambers empty. 1'evt lopmenta proved that it was a case of suicide, and. letters, found on his person showed the cause was loss from gambling. Ho wrote pitiful let ters to his wife and children. Among his other papers was a contract en tered into with his firm, Kuhn, Nathan A Fisher, a prominent clothing firm of Chicago, dated December I, 1S87. It shows that. W eisr s salary was $4,000 year on condition that he made sales amounting to $80,000. A singular shooting aflray occurred at Mount Pleasant, Utah, the sequtl to which was a marnace. Audrew Komarro had callwl on a young ladv to wnom ne nau invn paying atten tion, JIiss Mortensen. Whde encaceil in a slight scume she drew a revolver from his pocket, and, pointing it at him, said in a joking manner, she would shoot him if he did not let her alone. "Look out! it's loaded," said Romarro. Just then Miss Mortensen pulled the trigger when a bullet en tered the left side of Romarro'a face. Almost wild with freniy, the Kirl threw the revolver away and began to run. Romarro, bleeding profusely, fell, but got up and wont into the house. A doctor waa summoned and the wound dr sed. The shooting was one at 7 p. m, and at midnight they wero married. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest In Condensed Form. The crop of Chineso phessints promise" to be enormous in Linn county this year. O. J, Beardslt-y was appointed post master at Eola, Polk county, Oregon, vice Asa Shain, resigned. ' A new iMist'jffiee was established at Nashville, Benton county, Oregon, and Jennie C. Curry was appointed post mistress. Patents have been granted aa fol lows: Oregon Wilton K. Anderson and Ben H. Smith, Wapenita, sawmill dog. Gov. Pennoyer ha appointed Mrs Parsell, of Alpine, Oregon, a DOtary public, the first instance of a woman having been appointed to that oflice in Oregon. Convict Crump made an attempt at suicide at the Salem penitentiary by jumping from tho top bunk in his coll, iiead first to the stone ffxir. He was knocked senseless, but recovered. At Washington, Secretary Vilas bus affirmed the decision of the commis siohcr of tho general land clll.'e in awarding to Thomas C. Little a tract of laud of forty acres in the Lakeview (Oregon) land district. Dee Matlock shot Al Laikins, at Ueppner, the ball entering1 the side ol the neck just above tho collar bone, passing out above the shoulder blade, nd barely missing a large arterv. Larkin has even chances for vetting well. Matlocl' is at laree. Larkin was on crutches at the time, having been hurt by a hore. Gov. Pennoyer has received from Alexander Sutton, secretary of the Columbia Riv r Fishermen's Protect ive Union, a complaint that trap or pound net fishermen violate the law by fishing during the weekly close season. The governor bus referred tho matter to tno fish commission, with directions to act. A corpse was discovered floating in the river at ihe foot of Stark street, Portland. The remains were so swollen that ut first it was difficult to identify them, but subsequently they wero re cognized as being those of John Ken nedy, a shoemaker. Mr. Kennedy was un old resident of tho citv. He was u quiet, peaceful man and a good citizen. Peter Shannon shot and killed his wile and afterward shot and killed himself. Tho tragedy occurred at a small boardinir house in Poitland. It was a most brutal, cold blooded niui der. Shannon was about (10 years old and bin wife 05. They had only been married about a year, and Shannon's jealousy is summed to havj been the cause of the crime. John Mcintosh, u young man em- ployed at Gov. Pennoyei's sawmill, Portland, met with a seiious accident, entailing the loss of his right bund. ii i . i . . wuraiiy, hi a piuner unit in stepping on the lever lo throw Un belt oil' the pulley, he slipped and was pitched forward, his hand striking the planer und being caught under the heavy blades. It was frightfully man gled as far up aa the wrist. Mr. Mc intosh was taken to his home. J. F. Parkn, a lawyer of Spokane Falls, who has been staying at tho St. Charles hotel, Portland, was found in a dying condition in his room. A partially filled box of morphine pills on tho stand by his bcdsii e showed ...1.... I. .j U .. I i . I . nimi, ne mm lUKen, ami a Uoctor was at once summoned, but all efforts to restore animation failed, and in a short time ho expired. It is supposed that the morphine was takuu with suicidal intent. Three yoiimr women were passing the corner of Third and Taylor streets, Portland, a huckmun asked them to Uko a lii'e. One of them t ild him to drive around the comer and draw up to the sidewalk. llo did ho, and iilight-d to mien thu door of his hack, when two of the young women seized him, and ihe oilier, taking his whip from tno socket, proceeded to ly it on over his head and shoulders with givut vigor. After receiving a small taste of what he richly deserve I, ho managed to escape, and jumping oi his hack drove nil", leaving In whip a a tropny in Ihe hands of the young woman. Antone Neidermyer, asalo n keeper on the White Hou-e road, near Port land, made a queer attempt on his life. Taking a razor, , he cut a gush two inches lomt on the inner side of his left foot, about an inch above the an kle joint. The wound, a superficial one, not serious, was dressed by a doc- tor, i no iiii'ii-trioii gHineu grouilll Neidermyer had been married that during the aitornoon, and a crowd of young people went to his place of abode in the saloon to charivari him and his bride. It was then found that he had locked himself in a room and attempted his li e James H. O'Reilly, a young carpen ter in the employ of the O, R. & N. Co., met with a fatal accideut at bridge No. 77, about two miles beyond the Cascades. It appears O Redly was en gaged with aome other workmen in making repairs to the bridge, when he fell, sustaining what was regarded as seriom injuries. The head office in this city was telegraphed and informed of the accident, and requested to have a surgeon at the depot lo attend him i i. i , ... -iit-u ue reaeneu nere. ah arrange ments were made for the injured man by the company, but another dispatch stated that O'Reilly had died on board the train just before reaching Bonne ville. Mis N. lfayworth, a young lady 20 years old, was fatally burned while set ting (ye to trwh in her yard, at her home near Galveston, Ind. She waa soou to have been married. MAnUTFT RFPDRT. I I VI r III m I wsfp Reliable Qnola'ioni Carefully Bevised Every Week. WHEAT Valley, $1 25afl 26 Walla Wallu,$l 17l 18 J. BARLEY W hole. $1 lOffil 12J; ground, per ton, "25 00(27 GO. OATS Milling, 42i45c.i feed, 41 45c. HAY Baled, $15 Of 17 00. SEED Blue Grass, 14 J lfa. ; Tim othy, 9J10a; Red Clover, 1415c. FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 20 . BUTTER Fancv roll, SOo'.; pickled, 15J20 per pound. ; inferior grade, 1522 j. CHEESE Eastern, l(5s?20c.j Ore gon, 14K5c; California, 14Jc. VEGETABLE? Beets. pr sack, $1 50; cabbige, per lb., 2-jc. ; carrots, perfk., $1 25; lettuce, per dox. 20o. ; onions. $1 50; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 5075c; radishes, per doz., 1520o. ; rhubarb, er lb., Cc. HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c; strained. 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8.J ). POULTRY Chickens, per doz.. $5 5(i 00; din ks, per doz., $5 00() 00; geese, $0 008 00; turkeys, per lb., 10($18e. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 13c per fii. ; hastern, LIkUJc; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12.$ per lb. ; Oregon 12(ii;1Jj,; Eisieru Jaid, K'OVlHo. per lb. ; Oregon, 10k. GREEN FRUITS ApyVs. $2 00 (i2 50; Sicil) lemon-, $5 00.5 50; California, $3 50uj5 00 ; N ivaloranges $5 75; Riverside, $1 00; Mediterra nean, $1 25. DRIED FRUITS Sim dried ap pies, 7Jii. per lb. ; machine dried, 10(3 11c ;t pit'ess plums, 13c.; Dalian prunes, 10(if'14c. ; peaches, 12JTlc; raisins, $2 252 50. WOOL Valley, ll15c; Eastern Oregon. 12 Ho. HIDES Dry beef hides, 8ftl0; culls, G7; kip and calf, 810j.; Murrain, 10 12e. ; tallow, 33o. LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00; j'd, per M, $12 00; T. and G. I ,H, .v..- 1 cl ) IU . V . O il BiiCiitiiuit; j i pu 'ru ; av. & Hi fur ing. per M, 118 00; No. 2 eeilinir, per M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00; ! dear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4 i ?.' ' 'i'.' 1 . ""or111-'. P"' .11. ,IU , io. 1 ceiling, per M, , " No- 1 r"rWt ,i:i1r M- " f)?i '. MU1'1,,"-. l' M- , 12 ,l,,r',;;" PlnV t 1 -T rn ! l,) ,0 "tr:': 2. . l)' .lt',,S,h u0 ' !? 1 'J1,'1 w ,H lwr M 2 20 I U lath, per M, .2 50. i " j MEAT Beef, wholesale, 3($,31e..; ' dressed, 7c; sheen, 3.Jc; dreeo, 6 ; I ,l(,Bs' tlrei-scd, 7oj7J :. ; veal, 78c. BEANS Ouoie small whites. $2 60: pinks, $2; onvna,$2; butter, $2 50; Limas, $3 00 t r .'eutal. COFFEE Q lote Salvador, lBc; Costa Rica, l(a20c. ; Ri i, 1S(?20i;. ; Java, 25k.; AruuckLYs rusted, 22$ SALT Liverpool grades of fine quoted $1S, $1!) and $20 fur thu tluee sizes; stock salt, $10. PICKLES Kegs quoted steady al $1 35. SUGAR Price for barrels; Golden C.SJc. ; extrs C.CJf. ; dry granulated, 6Jc. ; crushed, fi ie crushed, cube and isiwdered, 7Jo. ; extra C, 5jj;.; halves and boxes, hiyher. PITH AND POINT. Some people are so lonsltive that they soem to have corns all oyer them. The wise man is the man who knows what to do whoa the time como. People don't got famous In a hurry, and it takes a deal of work cvon to earn your broad and buttor. "Will the coining man use both arms?" ask a soiontisU Ua will if his girl knows how to drive. Omaha World. Tliero U a forture waiting for the man who will invent a humane mothod of starting a balky hoiso, Judging from effects, the kind of oil most extensively used for pouring on troubled waters la turmoiL K Y. Bun. Money is not nearly so Taluable as character, for money can not buy the respect of thoughtful men and women. True politeness Is rerfeot ease and freedom. It simply consists in treat. ing others as you like to be treated yourselt Lord Chesterfield. The louder the whine of com plaint, the les need for sympathy. Intense emotions never express them ioItcs in noise. Be not offended at a jost. If one throw salt at thoe, thou will receive no harm nnless thou halt tore places. Old Proverb. It U only another illustration of the law of compensation that women advanced in viowi are apt to be behind In the fashions. It Is not what a man makes but what he saves that adds to his proa perityj atop the leaks. "Wanton wasU makes woeful want" Ho who does rt-jht it frequently left alone. Ha who nnder the urface and discerns .he true state of things, will be left aline by the nndta cerning multitude. As tho sword of I te kest tempered metal is inostll xille, so the trnly generom aro most p iant and courte ous In tlnir behavior o their inforiora, T. Fuller. ... - AGRICULTURAL, w uie intereiU of Par-, and Rtirlrm.. """"I 8or Iet, or Gui-get. A correspondent of li,.n..v. . wm gives a cure of his own for ,? iroubh some complaint. t '" At first one tout will milk harder 'tV"1 the rest, and gofg won until crp. dron can bo sot from it ti.. 18 )f the buir it rpnrmt. ,."t "Ulfr woolen. He le, . the teat llm ,ff done for four days, rubbing cij, il twice a day, giving U,e Cow"! drona of a(!onit. nn un . ur night and morning, and notgiv,no; ?' ,'f.w R full ar,.in .U . . ,flg the - o--... .unon uurinir ir time. He milks on the fifth day I !J generally has no trouble. If jt j,' .a to milk hard again give another and there is no troubln f(n. This is uinitita in... l . S'tll troublesome complaint. n,t ... - n .IVBIIIItf ".u rv ill in....... time of the year there may be mT. thii persons who will he glad to know hi to treat it. Large quantities of butter are ei. i.uiict. iium imssw. ine amount t oned in 1886 was 4.3U6 ton, against 3,315 tons in 1880. ' A farmer's wife tells tho Fum' a Horn that if butter niMkers will nut iheir cream through a thin li., i . just before churning it. they will not ne noinereu wun White specks in tU butter. An avenue of well-grown trees ,T tho roadside makes a farm vastly more attractive and costs little excent the lator of setting. On high ground the sugar maple thus set will . sugar grove ufter a few year ft low land the elm is the lian,!wm, tree, but its roots extend far into the fields. Potatoes oimht to bo planted at least th:ee to Lur inches deep, and if covered thus deeply tiny will b fonie tini't in coining up. Weeds are quite sure to get tho start unless thesinfuce is harrowed onco or twice before tlm potato crop is out of the ground. R really does not hurt tho iotulo to con tinue the harrowing still longer. There is a greater demand for ever green coi n than for any other. It is late, and, ihereh re, preferred for can ning. It is very lurge and sweet, and, therefore, in demand for soilim? nH ensilage. Being late and large, it u difficult to cure tho teed without fi heat, which should, always be girm, to have it safe from freezine when cold weather comes. A man's character can be judged pretty well by seeing him among liis cows. If 1 wanted to buv a cow und was shown one that the owner raited. and she kept out of reach when he tried to put his hand on her, I would rejest her for uo other reason. 1 should be afraid either he had bred all the good disposition out of her, or that she had lost any she was born with hy associating with him. Tho oichurdist it largely dependent on tho weather. On one point he it nearly, if not quite, helpless. If dry I weather enough dins not come while bis trees are hlossoiniug for the pollen to diffuse itself, tho fruit will not set Part of this work is doubtless depend ent upon bees, which do not fly dur ing heavy cold ruins. More than ones we nave seen abundant blossonun; followed by heavy rams which waslnd away tho iMjIlen and left oaly a very poor Mt of fruit. Mulching consists in the flpplieitii n of old straw or something of tho sort on the surface around the tree, fur mice or four feet ou each side, und to the depih of ten or tw lve inches. This retains the moisture for the beu f tit of the tree, inst ad of allowing it to evaporate; und if the teason be dry it will save tho life of the tree, while if it happens to bo wet no in jury will take place. Newly planted irees olten live without mulching, but tho danger is great, and the hot, dry summir frequently prcve fatal; s lhat the cureinl planter will not run the risk of neglecting it. It is quite right to color butler with unnuito, observes Prof. Stewart. R has no effect upon the reul quul.ty ef the butler, except to give it mi appe tizing color. Butter is one of ths foods that v.-e taste thr. ugh our ey. If it has a delicate golden color the imagination can tusily give it the aroniu and flavor of the sweetest prurf butter. If it be too white, us winur butler must be, without coloring, it i imagined to be largely composed of lard. Coloring adds much to the pleasure of eating it, and therefore to its digestibility. In a report on entomology recently made to the Columbus (O.) Horticul tural Society Mr. B. W. Allwocd state I that many remedies were employed on caooage worms, isone proved of any value except tobacco soaps and pyreth- rum. ihe tobacco soaps prepared with potash were quite efficient, the value of which was ascribed to the potash. Pyrelhrum is recommended as the best remedy, being perfectly safe, easy of application and more deadly on the worms than any other remedy used. Powder of good quality mixed with three times its bulk i-f flour, was found perfectly effective, ap plied with a dusting bellows. It is related that a genius at Pitts burg, 111., has made a big barrel chum upon wheels. He goes through the country gathering cream, until proper quantity hat been secured. On the way home he connects the churn ing gear, and as he drives along the churning goes on as the wagon moves forward, so that when he arrives there is nothing to do but take out the but ter and draw off the buttermilk. That comes pretty near a portable butter uciory, and its inventor is prooaoi L ..." .a. iKirn i anaee. instead ol beine a tive of the Sucker State." i